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More Than He Knows

MORE THAN HE KNOWS is an LGBT short film with a fresh take on bisexuality. Thank you for your help!

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More Than He Knows

More Than He Knows

More Than He Knows

More Than He Knows

More Than He Knows

MORE THAN HE KNOWS is an LGBT short film with a fresh take on bisexuality. Thank you for your help!

MORE THAN HE KNOWS is an LGBT short film with a fresh take on bisexuality. Thank you for your help!

MORE THAN HE KNOWS is an LGBT short film with a fresh take on bisexuality. Thank you for your help!

MORE THAN HE KNOWS is an LGBT short film with a fresh take on bisexuality. Thank you for your help!

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Los Angeles, United States
$3,579 USD 58 backers
71% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
Overview
Positive, uplifting LGBT stories are a must in our world today. While LGBT stories that focus on tragedy and heartbreak are certainly important, we need the upbeat ones to keep us optimistic. This short film has been ENTIRELY self-funded up to this point and we need your help! MORE THAN HE KNOWS Logline: When a happily married couple go on a routine staycation, the wife demonstrates that she knows her husband better than he knows himself.

My Name is Chris McNeany and I am the writer, producer and one of the actors of the LGBT short film “More Than He knows.” We achieved 76% cast and crew diversity including LGBT, women, ethnic diversity, and military veterans.

We completed the film in February 2019, and are thrilled the short has screened at the following film festivals:

 

Amazon All Voices Film Festival (TOP TEN FINALIST)

Spectrum Film Festival, Martha Vineyard 

Frameline43, San Francisco, CA 

Stamped Film Festival, Pensacola, FL  (WINNER: BEST SHORT)

All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, Austin TX  

Burbank Film Festival, Burbank CA

Out on Film Atlanta's LGBTQ Film Festival September 26 - October 6, 2019

Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival October 4 - 12, 2019

Seattle Queer Film Festival October 10-20, 2019

Reel Affirmations, Washington DC   October 24-27, 2019

 

Film festivals are wonderful for audience interaction, networking opportunities, and the reward of seeing your work on the big screen. However, they are costly to participate in. Submission fees, marketing, travel, etc. It all adds up. We need your help to make the most of the opportunities we have been given!

The Director of this short is Fiona Dawson. She co-directed the feature documentary “Transmilitary,” which won the audience award at SXSW in 2018. She also directed the Emmy®-nominated short documentary, “Transgender, at War and in Love.” Fiona and I are hoping to travel to as many festivals as possible to represent the film and develop it as a series.

Our goal is to reach $5,000. This will help enormously in making the most out of the film festivals we’ve been accepted to and cover the submission fees for the ones we are applying for.

Not able to contribute but want to help?  Here’s what you can do!

We are honored to have made the top ten of the Amazon All Voices Film Festival: an online festival showcasing underrepresented short films: LGBT, ethnically diverse, military veterans, senior citizens, etc. As we develop this short as a series, success with this festival can be a BIG HELP.  Please watch it, share it, and leave a review on Amazon.

Here’s the link (free for Amazon Prime members): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SYMVJLR/

 

Lastly, you can help by sharing this page!

Thank you!!

-Chris McNeany & Fiona Dawson

 

More about the Cast and Crew

Fiona Dawson, Director

Fiona Dawson is an award winning, director, producer and writer. She directed the Emmy®-nominated short documentary, “Transgender, at War and in Love” commissioned by The New York Times and co-directed the feature length doc “TransMilitary,” which premiered at South by Southwest (SXSW) 2018 and won the Best Feature Documentary Audience Award. In 2015 Fiona was honored by The White House as an LGBT Artist Champion of Change. She was voted Houston's Female Grand Marshal for the 2009 LGBT Pride Parade, has served on the National Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign, the Board of Directors for NLGJA - The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and is an IFP Documentary Lab Fellow. Fiona lives in Brooklyn, NY where she is Founder & Director of Free Lion Productions.

 

Chris McNeany, Writer / Producer/ (Ryan)

Originally from Massachusetts, Chris developed a love for theatre and movies in college. He graduated Cum Laude from College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA with a B.A. in English. After teaching English in Ecuador for a year, he moved to NYC to pursue theatre. He has performed in musicals and plays in theaters across the U.S., including "West Side Story," "Anything Goes," "Absurd Person Singular," and "Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music." He wrote, directed, produced and acted in his first short film, "Red, Black and Blonde," which premiered at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. He wrote, produced, and acted in his second short film, "Classified," which premiered at Action on Film International Film Festival. With his sketch comedy group, Panties on a Budget Comedy, Chris performs on the Comedy Central Stage in Hollywood and writes/produces/acts in sketch videos.

 

Helena-Alexis Seymour (Taya)

Helena-Alexis is a Canadian born, 2-time F.A.B.I.O (Faces and Businesses in Ottawa Awards) Best Actress Award Winner and 2015 Black Canadian Award nominee as Best Actress. Known for appearing in xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017), Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), Beauty and the Beast (2012) and much more. Helena-Alexis received her first acting break at 10 years old as a Lead on U.S. National Commercial for POST Golden Raisin Crisp cereal. As an emerging pre-teen actress with a knack for the screen, Helena-Alexis booked a Principal role to play Vanessa Williams at the age of 15 in the re-occurring VH1 Christmas film, 'Diva's Christmas Carol.' Helena-Alexis is now an established Canadian talent that has become a go-to name for many casting directors, writers and directors alike. 

Represented by AMTI: Toronto and with full management in Los Angeles, the sky certainly seems as if it is not the limit for one of Canada's top leading ladies. 

 

Julian Fletcher (John)

Julian just finished work on the Lionsgate Studios feature film 'Honored' with Sasha Pieterse and produced by Zoe Saldana. Classically trained, Julian made his acting debut in "The Sign of the Lizard" directed by the late Broadway producer Robert Whitehead in 1994 while still in college. Since then, he has appeared in over 30 film and theatre productions both here and in London. During his acting career Julian has worked with the likes of Rob Corddry, Mathew Francis and Edward Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company.  

Julian's acting training began in college with the Tony Award Winning Broadway actress Zoe Caldwell. Once in New York, he studied with teachers such as Alan Langdon of Circle in the Square and Sandy Shurin. Since relocating to LA a year and a half ago from New York, Julian has studied with the famed acting coach Lesly Kahn as well graduating from the improv program at iO West. He has a BFA in Theatre from USF in Tampa, Florida  

He has appeared in several commercials for companies such as Kellogs, Wendy's and At&T to name a few, as well as many voice over roles from Batman in "Batman-Dark Tomorrow" the video game, to the voice of the Captain in The Captain Morgan commercials.  

Julian speaks conversational Spanish and has traveled extensively through out Central and South America as well Europe and Russia. He just celebrated his fifth wedding anniversary with his beautiful wife Inga. They have two wonderful little boys, Jakob and Aaron. 

 

Kim Estes (Mitch)

Estes was born and raised in Los Angeles (Jefferson Park/Crenshaw district) and attended college at CSU, Cal Maritime Academy in Vallejo, CA and post-graduate work at the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business. He joined the US Merchant Marines and the US Navy upon graduation. After sailing for 14 years, he became a Chief Engineer on ocean going vessels. Estes also worked as the corporate head of the Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability group for a major fortune 500 company. He has served as a consultant and special investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board and has worked on Environmental & Safety disasters across the globe to help make the world a better place.

 

Elizabeth Barber (Elizabeth)

Elizabeth is an actress and a member of Panties on a Budget Comedy. Fingers crossed someone green lights her music video idea dedicated to Lady Gaga or Madonna or Britney. She clearly loves pop music and dancing at weddings by herself. It's imperative people give this girl some space on the dance floor for safety reasons. She hails from Ohio, where your vote actually matters. What up swing states! In addition to speaking in multiple accents throughout any given conversation, she enjoys wine, emoticons/emojis, learning how to pipe the shit out of cupcakes, and talking about the Shih Tzu she shares joint custody of with her sister named Bogart (or Bogie for short). He just won a costume contest. She'd also prefer Bogie gain more IG followers than she has.

 

Matthew Lynn Cinematographer

Matthew is an award-winning narrative Cinematographer from Chattanooga, Tennessee whose work has been accepted into Cannes, Tribeca, Frameline, Outfest and more film festivals and received both Gotham and Queerty award nominations. After attending the American Film Institute Conservatory's MFA Cinematography program Matthew has traveled around the world working as the Director of Photography on many projects including feature and short films, documentaries, music videos and web series and has been the cinematographer on projects with James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, YouTube stars Davey Wavey and Brian Jordan Alvarez. Matthew is well versed in both film and digital photography.

 

Fabio Bertagnolli  Composer

Fabio Bertagnolli is a New York City based composer of concert music and music for film and multimedia. Born in a little town in Northern Italy, Fabio had his first brush with music when, as a teenager, he started playing trombone in the local community band. Then, he decided that music would be the driving force in his life.

Fabio completed his musical education earning an Italian Conservatory Diploma in classical piano at the "F.A. Bonporti Conservatory" in Trento, Italy. While teaching piano as a private teacher, he kept playing trombone in various ensembles (big bands, brass bands, wind bands and classical orchestras) with famous conductors such as Jan Cober, Felix Hauswirth, Thomas Doss, Frank Ticheli, Josè Rafael Pasqual Vilaplana (just to name some).

Fabio's music ranges over different styles and genres, and it is infused with a great sensitivity connected to his native Italian culture.

 

Michelle Sam  First Assistant Director / Script Supervisor

Michelle Sam is a writer, filmmaker, actress, and social justice activist whose work focuses on the ongoing themes of race, sexuality, class, and gender. You can catch Michelle performing with the Women of Color Anonymous (WOCA) sketch/improv comedy group at UCB Sunset and WCCW feminist space in Los Angeles. She enjoys late nights, sunshine, dry wit, and last minute adventures.

 

 

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